How to call AutoitX3 dll from batch file?

[CyberMax]

Can anyone help me by showing me how's its done calling autoitx3 dll function from a batch file? Maybe I didnt search enough but I cant find any example of it.

Thanks.

[Richard Robertson]

You can't. AutoItX is a dll.

You could instead consider converting your batch file to an AutoIt script and then just call the functions directly.

[trancexx]

Considering the organization of AutoItX3 this can be achieved by adding one small wrapper function to it that it would additionally export. You could then use rundll32.exe to call functions you want. Something like:

rundll32.exe AutoItX3.dll,BatchCall CDTray,D:,open

...or whatever the syntax is.

Make a feature request if you are really interested.

[CyberMax]

Can this tool below, be able to call the autoitx3.dll?

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/CallDLL-OL.shtml

[Richard Robertson]

Probably. What is it you are trying to do anyway?

[CyberMax]

Probably. What is it you are trying to do anyway?

Simple, I just wanted to know whether I can call AutoitX3 dll from a batch file.

I can write simple autoit script already. But now this is a crazy idea of me whether its possible

to do it in a batch file using AutoitX3 dll file.

Once awhile, people come up with crazy ideas and I'm one of them.

Edited November 21, 2010 by CyberMax

[Jos]

Simple, I just wanted to know whether I can call AutoitX3 dll from a batch file.

I can write simple autoit script already. But now this is a crazy idea of me whether its possible

to do it in a batch file using AutoitX3 dll file.

Once awhile, people come up with crazy ideas and I'm one of them.

That only explains what you are trying to do, not what you are trying to accomplish!

Why would you want a wrapper for autoitx3.dll when you have autoit3.exe?

Jos

[CyberMax]

That only explains what you are trying to do, not what you are trying to accomplish!

Why would you want a wrapper for autoitx3.dll when you have autoit3.exe?

Jos

This is just the beginning, I'm trying to read an ini file by using autoitx3.dll in

a batch file. The reason is simple, since I already know its easy to use autoit to do

it but now I want to use autoitx3.dll in a batch file to do the same thing.I read in

autox future, someone already created a autoit dll wrapper for delphi, so why not create a autoit dll wrapper to be

use in a batch file, and if its really possible to do it?

Edited November 22, 2010 by CyberMax

[Richard Robertson]

Even if you read the value, what would you do with it? Batch files don't have things like variables.

[BrewManNH]

Even if you read the value, what would you do with it? Batch files don't have things like variables.

Batch files do have variables.

[wraithdu]

@CyberMax

You're trying to hammer a nail with a Twinkie. Just stop. Reconsider your purpose and choose a more suitable tool.

[Richard Robertson]

Batch files do have variables.

How? All I knew about were environment variables (which are not batch variables and would be problematic in scope) and parameters (which are not assignable).

[wraithdu]

Batch considers this a variable:

set _var=value
echo %_var%

In reality it is an environment variable, but it is in local scope to the script. So you just have to be careful how you name your variables that they don't collide with the existing environment.

[Richard Robertson]

But I hope you agree with me that trying to call IniRead and store it in a batch "variable" is senseless when AutoIt is made for things like that.

[wraithdu]

"Tell him about the Twinkie..."

[BrewManNH]

But I hope you agree with me that trying to call IniRead and store it in a batch "variable" is senseless when AutoIt is made for things like that.

That I would agree with. He's basically trying to use a hammer when a screwdriver is needed.